Nearly 13,000 soldiers died at this Civil War site. Andersonville National Historic Site is preserving their memory.

The notorious Andersonville Prison, the largest and deadliest of the Confederacy’s prisoner-of-war camps during the Civil War, operated for only 14 months. But by the time the open-air camp shut down ...

Among the prominent Civil War veterans laid to rest in the ... that Thomas O'Dea created from his memories at Camp Sumter prison in Andersonville, Ga. He drew the large bird's-eye, panoramic ...

The story behind Thomas O’Dea's harrowing drawing of the Confederates' Andersonville Prison in Georgia. Memorial Day events will be held at the site this weekend.

Henry Wirz, commander of the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, was hanged on Nov. 10, 1865, in Washington, D.C., the only Confederate officer executed as a war criminal.

CHAPMAN as Judge-Advocate, convened in Washington for the trial of WERTZ, the Andersonville jailor ... cry out to unlock the secrets of Confederate prison-houses. Because the kith and kin of ...

It’s a horrific story about a sad chapter in the nation’s history: the Civil War. Andersonville, also known as Camp Sumter, was a Georgia prison used for impounding Union Soldiers during the ...

Michael Vorenberg talked about the legacy of Confederate Captain Henry Wirz, who was in charge of the Andersonville Prison Camp from March 1864 to his arrest in May 1865… read more Michael ...

Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville prison, housed 45,000 captured Union soldiers during the Civil War. Conditions at Andersonville were so horrific that 13,000 soldiers perished, many from ...